Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 2 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 3 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 4 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 6 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 7 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 8 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 9 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 10 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 11 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 12 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 13 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 16 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 17 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 18 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 19 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 20 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 21 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 22 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 23 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 24 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 25 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 26 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 27 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 28 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 29 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 30 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |